March 13, 2022

Moscow United Methodist Church Digital Bulletin March 13, 2022

Prelude Ringing of the Bells Schedule This Week: Administrative Council Monday 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Morning Crew Wednesday 9:00 a.m. Trustee Meeting Wednesday 6:30 p.m. NPM Lenten Service (CRAOG) Thursday 7:00 p.m. Office Hours This Week - 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 16th 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 17th 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Thursday, March 17th Welsh Cookie Sale – The UMW will be making their famous, delicious Welsh Cookies on March 16th. Please get your orders in early to Paulette Fotta, Cis Lyon, or Carole Burnett. Mark your calendars for next Sunday, March 20th as we will be having a special worship service with communion on the two year mark of when the church building had to be closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Newsletter deadline for March is next Sunday, March 20th. Please send any information or articles you would like included in the newsletter to the church office. Vision Team: If anyone would like to participate in the Vision Team, please contact Pastor Lori. The first meeting of the Vision Team is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th at 6:30. North Pocono Ministerium Presents “A Call to Lent”, every Thursday, March 10-April 7, at 7 PM. This week the service is at the Cross Road Assembly of God Church with the theme “A Call to Forgiveness”. Please join us as we explore different ideas each week leading up to Easter. You can find the full schedule on the bulletin board outside the offices, as well as on our website under the “Events” tab. CPR/AED Class: If anyone would like to sign up for a future class, please contact Jennie in the office, or add your name to the list on the table in the Narthex. *** MUMC DONATION STATION *** The MUMC Donation Station is located in the narthex of the church building: For the month of March we will be collecting items for the Griffin Pond Animal Shelter. After the collection is over, the Sunday School students will be invited to deliver the items. Their wish list can be found on the sign by the Donation

Bins in the Narthex as well as on our website. They are always in need of unopened bags of dog and cat food, litter, and cleaning supplies. Special Call to Giving: Each cluster in the SWB District is collecting items that will be sent to Mission Central to prepare medical kits and send them on to the people of Ukraine. Our North Pocono Cluster Churches are collecting adhesive dressings. Monetary donations can be made to the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s (UMCOR) International Disaster Response and Recovery through Advance #982450. *Food Pantry & Dry Goods Pantry – Most Needed Items of the week: Food Pantry- cereal, soup, canned pasta, and tuna Dry Goods Pantry –any type of cleaning products, toothpaste, and toothbrushes Sunday School continues to meet Sundays at 9AM for all ages. The children meet in the sanctuary. The kids are having a blast playing games, making crafts, and even cooking! Contact Barbara Havenstrite for more information. The Adults are currently meeting in Pastor Lori’s office.

The MUMC Learning Tree Preschool still has a few openings for the Spring semester. Applications are also being accepted for the 2022-2023 school year. MUMC Power of Prayer Network – If anyone is in need of prayer, please contact Cis Lyon, Pastor Lori, or Jennie, so your requests can be given to the Power of Prayer Network. Opening Prayer *Call to Worship Leader: We will tell of your name, O God; People: In the midst of the congregation, we praise you, O Lord. Leader: Praise God, all who stand in awe of God’s grace; People: We honor and glorify God’s righteous name. Leader: God does not hide, nor forsake us; People: When we call, God answers. Those who seek to share God’s mercy, will live in love forevermore. *Opening Hymn UHM#662 “Stand Up and Bless the Lord” Stand up and bless the Lord, Ye people of his choice; Stand up and bless the Lord your God With heart and soul and voice

Though high above all praise, Above all blessing high, Who would not fear is holy name, And laud and magnify O for the living flame From his own altar brought, To touch our lips, our minds inspire, And wing to heaven our thought! God is our strength and song, And his salvation ours; Then be his love in Christ proclaimed With all our ransomed powers. Stand up and bless the Lord; The Lord your God adore; Stand up and bless his glorious name, Henceforth forevermore. Children’s Time Epistle Reading Philippians 3:17-4:1 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. But our

citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! Special Music Carol Hess Gospel Reading Luke 13:31-35 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” Leader: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God. Message God’s Will and Willingness

Prayer of Confession: Almighty Father, we come before you as sinners, unworthy of your grace, unworthy of your love, unworthy of you. Have mercy on us, O Lord. Too often have we begged for a sign. Too often have we forgotten Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Too often have we acted on sight and not by faith. Take away our hardness of heart. Remove our selfishness and our greed. We ask you now to heal us and fill us with your peace. Silent Prayer Words of Assurance *Hymn of Response UMH#348 “Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling” Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; See, on the portals he’s waiting and watching Watching for you and for me. Come home, Come home; You who are weary come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading. Pleading for you and for me? Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, Mercies for you and for me?

Come home, Come home; You who are weary come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, Passing from you and from me; Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming, Coming for you and for me. Come home, Come home; You who are weary come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! O for the wonderful love he has promised, Promised for you and for me! Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, Pardon for you and for me. Come home, Come home; You who are weary come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! TIME OF PRAYER Circle of Prayer Churches: West Burlington UMC, West Burlington Big Spring UMC, Newville Waverly UMC, Waverly

Wesley UMC, Tyrone Granville UMC, Granville Middlesex UMC, Carlisle Liberty Corners UMC, Liberty Corners Hicks Memorial UMC, Duncansville Lewisberry UMC, Lewisberry Ridge Street UMC, Bloomsburg Concerns - Corona Virus Pandemic, Our United Methodist Denomination, Our Country and Leaders, All Military Troops, War in Ukraine, Geoff Walker, Helen Jolly, Eric Schilling, Sandy Krisler, Frank Ciero, Sr., Dana Nelson and Family, Alice Roese, Unspoken Requests, Those Suffering in Silence Joys – Silent Prayer Pastoral Prayer The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. Weekly Reminders

Tithes and Offering The Week Ahead *Hymn of Sending Forth UMH#419 “I Am Thine, O Lord (v1-2)” I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice, And it told thy love to me; But I long to rise in the arms of faith And be closer drawn to thee. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, To the cross where thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, To thy precious, bleeding side. Consecrate me now to thy service, Lord, By the power of grace divine; Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope, And my will be lost in thine. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, To the cross where thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, To thy precious, bleeding side. *Benediction Postlude